Reading Time: 3 minI find it amazing how many very old quotes can sound like they were first said yesterday. When I was a youth pastor around the year 2001 and people tried to tell me “how awful kids are today”, I loved this quote from Socrates (somewhere around 400 B.C.): The children now love luxury; they have […]
Archives for December 2016
Uptime monitors with a delay are very useful
Reading Time: 3 minA few years ago, I set out to find a good service to monitor uptime on all of the websites we manage (it varies, up to around 150 of them at any given time). It initially came down to two leading contenders: Pingdom – Undoubtedly the best, but it would have cost us around $249/mo. […]
Forwarders are good for everyone
Reading Time: 2 minGiven the somewhat unique spelling of my last name, people often have trouble typing in the correct website address for GreenMellen Media. As a result, we’ve purchased and configured a variety of misspellings to make sure people get to the right place. Along with GreenMellenMedia.com, you can also find us at GreenMellen.com, GreenMelonMedia.com and GreenMellonMedia.com. […]
Burst mode on Android finally works like iOS
Reading Time: 3 minI mentioned a few days ago that I was jealous of one iPhone feature; iMessage. I think Apple is really mishandling it by not making it available on other devices, but if you’re an iPhone user it’s a great piece of software. Over the years, Android has typically been the first to develop new features […]
MightyText vs Pushbullet vs Hangouts
Reading Time: 2 minMany of you know that I’m a huge fan of Android, as I feel that it bests iPhone in many ways. One place that it’s lacking, however, is in synergy of text messaging across devices. Apple’s iMessage has downsides, but the way it syncs between phone and computer is quite slick. For years I used […]
301 redirects now pass their full value to the recipient
Reading Time: < 1 minIf you ever need to redirect users from one page to another — due to website consolidation, new URL or some other reason — the ideal way to do it is via a “301 redirect”. A 301 redirect is considered a permanent change, and Google will use that information to update the search results. However, […]
Learn more about Google Analytics with us next week
Reading Time: < 1 minThe year is coming to a close, and we have a couple of great Meetups planned to help wrap it up. Thursday, December 15 – 11:30am On December 15, we’ll be meeting to discuss “Google Analytics — how was your year?”. We’ll take a beginner-level look at Google Analytics, then slowly dig deeper to show […]
Stopping fake Google and Lifehacker links
Reading Time: 2 minIf you pay close attention to your Google Analytics stats, you may have recently been excited to see that you’re getting some traffic from sites such as lifehacĸer.com and ɢoogle.com. Before you celebrate too much, take a closer look at those addresses; do you notice anything strange about the “k” in Lifehacker or the first […]
Moving to the Google Pixel and Project Fi
Reading Time: 3 minWhen I switched our family to T-Mobile earlier in the year, I did so with the intention of purchasing the latest Galaxy Note when it came out later in the year, as it was rumored to have amazing specs. When it came out, it absolutely did — every review of the phone was glowing and […]
Wrapping up WordCamp US 2016
Reading Time: 3 minWe’re at the airport about to fly back to ATL after WordCamp US in Philadelphia, so I thought I’d share a few of my takeaways. Of the dozen or so sessions that we attended, I have four main things that I’m coming away with. We’re doing a lot of things right In listening to search […]